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Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God banned by a large number of American public schools

Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World banned in Ireland and Australia in 1932

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Shirley Jackson -- "The Lottery" banned in South African during Apartheid

James Joyce -- Ulysses banned in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1922, banned in Australia in 1929, age-restricted in Australia in 1941, and banned by a large number of American public schools

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D. H. Lawrence -- Lady Chatterley's Lover banned in various countries since 1928 and banned by a large number of American public schools; Sons and Lovers and Women in Love banned by a large number of American public schools

Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird banned by a large number of American public schools

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Vladimir Nabokov -- Lolita banned in various locations since 1955 and banned by a large number of American public schools

Taslima Nasrin -- Lajja banned in Bangladesh and parts of India in 1993

Philip Nitschke -- The Peaceful Pill Handbook banned in New Zealand in 2007

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Edna O'Brien -- The Country Girls banned in Ireland in 1960; The Lonely Girl banned in Ireland in 1962

George Orwell -- Animal Farm banned from Allied printing from 1943-1945, banned in Kenya in 1991, banned in the United Arab Emirates educational system in 2002; Nineteen Eighty-Four banned in the Soviet Union in 1950 and banned by a large number of American public schools

John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath banned in various American municipalities since 1939 and banned by a large number of American public schools; Of Mice and Men banned by a large number of American public schools

Howard Stern -- Private Parts banned by a large number of American public schools

Fiona Stewart -- The Peaceful Pill Handbook banned in New Zealand in 2007

Jon Stewart -- America: The Book banned by several retail chains and libraries in the United States in 2004

R. L. Stine -- Goosebumps series banned by a large number of American public schools

Živorad Stojković -- About a Silence in Literature banned in Yugoslavia in 1951

Theodor Storm -- Auf der Universität banned within the South Korean military in 2008

Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin banned in Russia in 1852; banned throughout the Southern United States during the American Civil War; banned in a variety of American school systems

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- The Fugitive banned in Indonesia in 1950

Mark Twain -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer banned in a large number of American public schools; holds the distinction of the being the most commonly challenged author in the United States

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John Updike -- Rabbit, Run banned by a large number of American public schools

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Pierre Vallières -- White Niggers of America banned in Canada in 1970

Dragiša Vasić -- writings banned in Yugoslavia in 1964

Voltaire -- Candide banned by United States Customs in 1930; banned under the Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five banned by a large number of American public schools

Čeda Vuković -- Watershed banned in Yugoslavia in 1968

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Alice Walker -- The Color Purple banned by a large number of American public schools